SHEEP HOPPERS — MANURE. 783 



I set these sheep hoppers about seven feet apart, in a row, 

 one end of each even with the perpendicular of the edge of the 

 barn floor above. I have suspended walks, or platforms, made 

 of thick plank three feet wide, twelve feet high, level with 

 the barn floor. I placed midway between the space of each 

 pair of hoppers, and running parallel therewith, to walk on 

 while feeding hay. Five of these hoppers twelve feet long, 

 will accommodate one hundred head of sheep, and if made and 

 arranged as above, each sheep can have its rations of corn 

 before its nose within a space of fifteen seconds, by the attend- 

 ants throwing with force a quart of corn in each hopper, then 

 leisurely distributing the allotted feed in each apartment. 

 Afterward with a long-handled pitchfork, carefully place the 

 hay in each hopper, to be'eaten by the sheep at their pleasure. 



NO WASTE. 



By adopting this mode of feeding sheep, not a grain of 

 corn nor a spear of hay need be wasted. These sheep hoppers 

 should be raised to the proper hight for the sheep to eat from, 

 by setting them on blocks, two feet long, under each cleat, with 

 a good supply at hand of extra blocks, to be used to raise 

 them as litter accumulates in bedding the sheep with straw 

 from time to time. 



MANURE. 



When this, the best of domestic manure, is to be removed, 

 as it should be every year, the hoppers can all be taken to one 

 side, giving free access for that purpose. Unquestionably, 

 these are the sheep hoppers to feed sheep in. They cost but a 

 trifle each, are easily made, and with care will last a lifetime. 

 I claim no credit for oricrinatins: the above. 



I am, in a limited sense, engaged in bee husbandry. My 

 mode of operation is as follows: I have built what is known in 

 this section of the county as a " Faulkner Bee House," on 

 which there is a patent, in which I have just as much interest 

 as the man in the moon, no more, no less. 



